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1. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsTHE DEMISE OF THE ASYLUM IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN: A ...

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   Nov 4, 2011 · In 1960, there were 130 mental hospitals in England; by the time Friern closed, there were 41 (Busfield, Joan, ‘Restructuring Mental Health Services in Twentieth Century Britain’, in Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands, ed. Gijswift-Hofstra, Marijke and Porter, Roy (Amsterdam, 1998), 22 Google Scholar).

2. www.thelancet.com › journals › lanpsyAsylums: the historical perspective before, during, and after

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   Dec 17, 2019 · Many sufferers were at large, in the rhetoric of late-Georgian social reformers, implying they were neglected. About 150 years later, institutionalisation had reached its peak. Around 150 000 people resided in UK asylums in 1954, a rate per head of population nearly seven times greater than in 1800.

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3. www.thetimechamber.co.uk › beta › sitesThe Asylums List - TheTimeChamber

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   The Asylums List. In 1914 there were over one hundred thousand patients within over one hundred mental institutions around the United Kingdom, the majority of these institutions were built since the passing of the 1845 Act. With the passing of the care in the community act in the 1980’s, many of these institutions have since closed; only a ...

4. www.independent.co.uk › life-style › health-andThe demise of the asylum and the rise of care in the community

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   Between the 1950s and today the number of beds available for psychiatric patients in Britain has declined spectacularly from 150,000 to 27,000. The asylums were supposed to be replaced by “Care ...

5. research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk › bitstreamAsylums: the historical perspective before, during, and after

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   sylums: the historical perspective. Asylums: the historical perspective before, during, and afterReaders thinking about mental healthcare in todays developed world probably envisage clinics and hospitals. funded by the state, providing in- and out-patient treatment. But as late as the 1750s there were just three public asylums in England and ...

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   In the 1960s, most psychiatric hospitals were suburban or rural. Many were ‘total institutions’, as Erving Goffman described, places of residence and work where many like-situated individuals, cut off from wider society for an appreciable period of time, led an enclosed and formally administered way of life. 7 The public were often fearful ...

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   How many asylums were there in the UK in 1954?

   • Around 150 000 people resided in UK asylums in 1954, a rate per head of population nearly seven times greater than in 1800. At that date, half of all UK National Health Service hospital beds were given over to patients with mental illness or impairment. Numbers fell thereafter to 50 000 people by 1990. 2

   Asylums: the historical perspective before, during, and after

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   What happened to mental asylums in Britain?

   • Half a century ago every British city had at least one mental asylum on its outskirts, but these were rapidly closed down and sold off, often to become luxury flats or the site of a supermarket. It was one of the most radical changes in the British institutional landscape since the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century.

   The demise of the asylum and the rise of care in the community

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   How many asylums were there in the 1750s?

   • But as late as the 1750s, only three public asylums existed in England and one each in Scotland and Ireland, housing at most 400 people who were then termed lunatics, from a population of 7 million; roughly the same number were in so-called private madhouses.

   Asylums: the historical perspective before, during, and after

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   What is the mental map of asylums' past?

   • In particular, the mental map of asylums' past is sharply contrasting (eg, humanity vs barbarity, knowledge vs ignorance, and good practice vs bad practice), which does not allow for the shades created by the ideological and cultural context in which different locations and types of mental health care have been provided over the past two centuries.

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   Are mental asylums relics of a past era?

   • In the years since the mental asylums created by the Victorians were first denounced in the UK as relics of a past era – by Enoch Powell as Minister of Health in 1962 – the great majority of them have been closed.

   The demise of the asylum and the rise of care in the community

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   Was Friern really an asylum?

   • Barbara Taylor, a historian who spent time as a patient in the late 1980s in the Friern mental hospital in north-east London, formerly known as Colney Hatch, recalls in an essay that “for me Friern was truly an asylum. I entered it on my knees: I could no longer do ordinary life, and giving up the struggle was an incalculable relief.

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8. warwick.ac.uk › fac › artsTHE DEMISE OF THE ASYLUM IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN: A ...

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   Friern was the former Colney Hatch Asylum, one of the largest and most notorious of the great Victorian ‘museums of the mad’. It closed in 1993. The paper gives a detailed account of the hospital’s closure, in tandem with my personal memories of life in Friern during its twilight days. Friern’s demise occurred in an ideological climate ...